FTX CEO's bewilderment that company used QuickBooks for its accounting echoes a scene in 'Breaking Bad'

Dec 13 2022 by Business Insider

 
FTX CEO, John J. Ray III, testifying before Congress.

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New FTX CEO John J. Ray III said there was an "absence of record keeping" at the crypto company.  He noted that FTX used the accounting tool QuickBooks, an unusual for a multibillion-dollar company. The remark was reminiscent of a scene in "Breaking Bad," in which Skylar White says she uses Quicken.

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